I'm with you all the way on this one, the passion, the love of everything about the film, topped with just the most beautiful country for the setting. I return to Austria most years for our family holiday and have known every line from the film since I first saw it. Thanks for taking the time and effort to complete this, wish I was with you !,
This movie is one of the best movie. I have seen it in 1977 and I was read the storybook of ALISTAIR MACLEAN . Thank you for pull me 50 years past time . It was a great picture . Thanks.
Man, you gotta love that music picking up pace when the cable car comes into view through Burton's binoculars. 1:20 Listen to the drumming from that point on. Just enthralling, like the whole movie.
Just saw 'All is quite on the Western Front', a German production on Netflix. What our parents went through during 1939-1945 was truly heroic. And here we are in 2022 wondering what are pronouns are! How When and Where did this happen?
Thanks for uploading this. My favourite film of all time. Planned to go to Werfen and the cable car for my 60th last year but the pandemic put paid to that. Maybe next year.....? :0)
Thanks for the opportunity to relive some great memories I have from working on this movie as a standby prop. I was only 20 and this was my first foreign location film. I spent 11 months on this film and both Burton and Eastwood were really good people with no airs and graces, down to earth. Quick note, we were in Austria for 3 months shooting all the exterior shots and about seven months in the MGM studios in Borehamwood Hertfordshire.
Ray Buck: You are a very lucky man indeed. Had I known about you before our drive to Werfen from Watford, I am sure I would have picked your brain for all the location shots like those along the snowy road with the dynamiting of the telegraph poles or the road leading up to the the airport in the red Mercedes bus or the highland pastures hut where they rest upon parachuting from their Junkers Ju 52 aircraft.
@@mikeagate Hi Mike. A quick response to both your replies. I have lived in Florida for the last 40 years so the very short drive from Watford would not have found me at home. I do have a lot of interesting details and one very funny story about the dynamiting of the telegraph poles that was at the very end of shooting in Austria.
Ray Buck: I have just uploaded the film on my iCould account (not TH-cam). Are you able to see any internet content on your large screen TV? Please let me know so that I can send you the link. While seeing the film I just realised that they blew up the same building they first entered from the hills near the railway station, when the soldier trips over the wire!
@@mikeagate Sorry Mike I saw your post a month ago and then forgot about it. Don't have big TV set up with internet. Those explosions at the train station in the small town Werfen. That was the coldest day of the shoot and alongside the tracks ran modern concrete high tension power lines. I was told it cost 100.000 pounds to turn them off for the day in case the explosions did some damage to the lines. The scenes with the dynamite and the car going into the ravine were shot in late March not long before we left for the UK. The very last day shooting on that mountain road with Eastwood and Burton on the motorbike it snowed heavy all day and stopped with daylight ebbing fast. Eastwood and Burton had been waiting in a hotel hours so Burton had been drinking with his wife Liz Taylor. So when Brian Hutton holding the sticks of dynamite showing Burton how to pull the spring loaded fishing line out and attach it to the poles. Burton said "There is nothing in my contract about handling dynamite" all done with a serious poker face This went on for a while until Brian gave up and handed the job over to assistant director Colin Brewer. Colin started banging them on the motor bike handlebars to prove they were not real. Finally we shot the scene and Eastwood was told to turn the bike around a few hundred feet down the road for another shot and Burton said to keep going and the did straight back to the hotel. That was our one and only shot of the day.
@@raybuck8199 - Cool stories, Ray. Those are some great youth memories to look back on. I saw an interview with Derren Nesbitt who said that Burton was on four bottles of vodka a day. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but you couldn't tell by watching the film. I think if I were you, I couldn't watch the movie with other people because I'd be talking and telling stories all the way through!
Have you seen the film of Derren Nesbitt who plays SS - Sturmbannfuhrer - von Hapen on TH-cam? Here is a link if you haven't - simply riveting. You will love the location. Oh! Don't forget to also visit 'The Eagles 🦅 Nest', not far from Werfen. th-cam.com/video/P0P0HUgC_1M/w-d-xo.html
Did you that when Brian Hutton, the director was asked about the helicopter landing in the castle courtyard and that there were no helicopters in WW2. He replied, 'they will not notice it in Arkansas'!
I had the opportunity to visit Werfen and Hohenwerfen while stationed in Germany. Beautiful location and interesting history. Thank you for putting this together. I appreciated the filming. Next time leave out the music. Could barely hear you at times.
Thank you. I saw this picture in 1973 when I was 17 years old. And after 45 years managed to visit Werfen, in Austria where the picture was shot in 1968!
@@mikeagate Thank you sir for this video. I always wanted to se this place with my own eyes. Is it free(as in move freely) to walk around and explore inside the castle yourself?
I agree. This is a much superior film. BTW did you manage to see the film by clicking on the link provided. I have good collection of war films one my OneDrive portal. Films like Patton, Guns of Navarone, The longest Day and others.
I went to visit the castle the same year as you. Love the film and the music is fantastic (Ron Goodwill composer) Saw the the film when it first came out.
This goes way before sleepy joe. NATO and the EU have forced Putin’s hand. Compare America’s reaction to the possibility of a few missiles in Cuba 🇨🇺 and Russia’s 🇷🇺 concerns now! You and I can see this, and yet our ‘experts’ seem to be blinkered.
The castle is called 'Hohenwerfen Castle' and is located just outside the little town of Werfen in Austria 🇦🇹. It is close to the border of Southern Germany in Bavaria. After visiting the 'Eagle's Nest' in Berchtesgaden we reached Werfen in 45 minutes.
Just a brilliant war film, with breathtaking scenery, and great acting by A list actors makes for a classic film that I still love to this day......
I saw this movie for the first time in 1978 with my father. Till today I have a passion for a very few of those time movies, this is one of them.
I'm with you all the way on this one, the passion, the love of everything about the film, topped with just the most beautiful country for the setting. I return to Austria most years for our family holiday and have known every line from the film since I first saw it. Thanks for taking the time and effort to complete this, wish I was with you !,
This movie is one of the best movie. I have seen it in 1977 and I was read the storybook of ALISTAIR MACLEAN . Thank you for pull me 50 years past time . It was a great picture . Thanks.
This is one of my favourite movie, thanks for your kind information
The fantastic music has. doubled the pleasure of watchinh this all time greatest movie.
The opening music got etched in my mind for ever.
I was a child in the 80s when I first watched this timeless classic. One statement I still recall is " koso call Danny boy" laughs..
Man, you gotta love that music picking up pace when the cable car comes into view through Burton's binoculars. 1:20 Listen to the drumming from that point on. Just enthralling, like the whole movie.
Keep going and I appreciate your efforts! Not every Brit has lost their mind or is a sheep!
Just saw 'All is quite on the Western Front', a German production on Netflix.
What our parents went through during 1939-1945 was truly heroic.
And here we are in 2022 wondering what are pronouns are!
How When and Where did this happen?
The best movie of the time who ever had missed this movie kindly try to see thispvie fully
Great stuff--many thanks.
Great movie acted by two super stars Richard burton &Clint Eastwood. Both are rembered for ever. A deciated movie for world.
Thanks for uploading this. My favourite film of all time. Planned to go to Werfen and the cable car for my 60th last year but the pandemic put paid to that. Maybe next year.....? :0)
Thank you I enjoyed the movie! AND ALSO your tribute.
Glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic , what else can I say.....👍👍👍
Thanks for the opportunity to relive some great memories I have from working on this movie as a standby prop. I was only 20 and this was my first foreign location film. I spent 11 months on this film and both Burton and Eastwood were really good people with no airs and graces, down to earth. Quick note, we were in Austria for 3 months shooting all the exterior shots and about seven months in the MGM studios in Borehamwood Hertfordshire.
Ray Buck: You are a very lucky man indeed. Had I known about you before our drive to Werfen from Watford, I am sure I would have picked your brain for all the location shots like those along the snowy road with the dynamiting of the telegraph poles or the road leading up to the the airport in the red Mercedes bus or the highland pastures hut where they rest upon parachuting from their Junkers Ju 52 aircraft.
@@mikeagate Hi Mike. A quick response to both your replies. I have lived in Florida for the last 40 years so the very short drive from Watford would not have found me at home. I do have a lot of interesting details and one very funny story about the dynamiting of the telegraph poles that was at the very end of shooting in Austria.
Ray Buck: I have just uploaded the film on my iCould account (not TH-cam). Are you able to see any internet content on your large screen TV? Please let me know so that I can send you the link. While seeing the film I just realised that they blew up the same building they first entered from the hills near the railway station, when the soldier trips over the wire!
@@mikeagate Sorry Mike I saw your post a month ago and then forgot about it. Don't have big TV set up with internet. Those explosions at the train station in the small town Werfen. That was the coldest day of the shoot and alongside the tracks ran modern concrete high tension power lines. I was told it cost 100.000 pounds to turn them off for the day in case the explosions did some damage to the lines. The scenes with the dynamite and the car going into the ravine were shot in late March not long before we left for the UK. The very last day shooting on that mountain road with Eastwood and Burton on the motorbike it snowed heavy all day and stopped with daylight ebbing fast. Eastwood and Burton had been waiting in a hotel hours so Burton had been drinking with his wife Liz Taylor. So when Brian Hutton holding the sticks of dynamite showing Burton how to pull the spring loaded fishing line out and attach it to the poles. Burton said "There is nothing in my contract about handling dynamite" all done with a serious poker face This went on for a while until Brian gave up and handed the job over to assistant director Colin Brewer. Colin started banging them on the motor bike handlebars to prove they were not real. Finally we shot the scene and Eastwood was told to turn the bike around a few hundred feet down the road for another shot and Burton said to keep going and the did straight back to the hotel. That was our one and only shot of the day.
@@raybuck8199 - Cool stories, Ray. Those are some great youth memories to look back on. I saw an interview with Derren Nesbitt who said that Burton was on four bottles of vodka a day. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but you couldn't tell by watching the film.
I think if I were you, I couldn't watch the movie with other people because I'd be talking and telling stories all the way through!
Thank you
One of my all-time favorite movies! Thanks, Mike. I hope to visit Werfen and the “Schloss Adler” in June of 2024!
Have you seen the film of Derren Nesbitt who plays SS - Sturmbannfuhrer - von Hapen on TH-cam? Here is a link if you haven't - simply riveting. You will love the location. Oh! Don't forget to also visit 'The Eagles 🦅 Nest', not far from Werfen.
th-cam.com/video/P0P0HUgC_1M/w-d-xo.html
Thank You for the video, Enjoyed seeing the castle in the summer time, Remember the epic movie well. Later from Texas usa.
Did you that when Brian Hutton, the director was asked about the helicopter landing in the castle courtyard and that there were no helicopters in WW2. He replied, 'they will not notice it in Arkansas'!
I had the opportunity to visit Werfen and Hohenwerfen while stationed in Germany. Beautiful location and interesting history. Thank you for putting this together. I appreciated the filming. Next time leave out the music. Could barely hear you at times.
Yes, I saw it when it was released. Still one of the all time greats. MacLean was a great story teller.
Super bon film
Wonderful movie
Thank you. I saw this picture in 1973 when I was 17 years old. And after 45 years managed to visit Werfen, in Austria where the picture was shot in 1968!
Straordinario.
Even the role of back ground music composer was also created seriousness or mysteriousness of the incedents depicted in war movie
Can people visit this holy mighty place?
Yes. There is a small fee for the cable car ride to the castle 🏰.
Great views of Werfen from the top👍
@@mikeagate Thank you sir for this video. I always wanted to se this place with my own eyes. Is it free(as in move freely) to walk around and explore inside the castle yourself?
Wunderbar
7:08 A Bell 47-G in World war 2??????
Exactly! When questioned, Brian Hutton, the Director, remarked, 'they will not notice in Arkansas'!
In my opinion “Where Eagles Dare” is a superior film to “The Battle of Britain “
I agree. This is a much superior film. BTW did you manage to see the film by clicking on the link provided. I have good collection of war films one my OneDrive portal. Films like Patton, Guns of Navarone, The longest Day and others.
OH! ITS MY MOVIE ONLY MINE I SAW IT AROUND 500 TIMES. THANKS FRIENDS
I went to visit the castle the same year as you. Love the film and the music is fantastic (Ron Goodwill composer) Saw the the film when it first came out.
Wow great video!
I love this film no end. Has seen this at. least,500 times!.
Want to visit the filming site soon.
Thanks for the upload.❤❤
I was just 5 years old when this was shown in the Philippines. My dad and I watched this together. I remember some scenes but not all at that time.
Why not see it again here for free:
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Speaking of discredit ,Sleepy Joe brings it upon himself
This goes way before sleepy joe. NATO and the EU have forced Putin’s hand. Compare America’s reaction to the possibility of a few missiles in Cuba 🇨🇺 and Russia’s 🇷🇺 concerns now!
You and I can see this, and yet our ‘experts’ seem to be blinkered.
Is it just me or is your commentary inaudable?
That is true. As I cannot re-edit this I am planning to put the dialogue in the description.
When I read the novel recentlyI was struck by how much less bloodshed there is in the book.
Much less drumming too.
Nice effort 👌🏻
But please reupload without the Music when you talk
Thanks
But thats the music of the movie.
The uncredited actors and extras should've gotten an award. They did a great job.
Do you have a back story?
What a pity !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn´t understand a word that was said because the music was so darned loud !
Many of actor of thisl war movie have left ..... long live one and only the legendary Clint Eastwood .....
Masterpiece of a film.
When and where did you first see this epic?
I read 50 millions perished? #Broadsword
One of the best war film climax was excellent and Alistair Maclean Novel Double cross treble cross so nice
To see this movie, why not check it here 'classic film research group'.
Where in Germany is the castle please.
The castle is called 'Hohenwerfen Castle' and is located just outside the little town of Werfen in Austria 🇦🇹. It is close to the border of Southern Germany in Bavaria. After visiting the 'Eagle's Nest' in Berchtesgaden we reached Werfen in 45 minutes.
Many thanks Mark for your reply. Much appreciated. 👍👍
Mike sorry.
Ah !!! .... Za Faderland !!! 👍
Ah!! Du Arsch mit ohren!
Sir can U Plz reupload without Ur voice